Happy Valentine!

I have been making hearts today!  Well,  it is Valentine’s day.  I want some hearts for a tea cosy.  You see I want an elegant tea cosy for when I play at ladies!  Wool cosies are lovely, but you could never call them elegant.  So I had an idea of using cotton and some fancy stitch.  I thought of using hearts to embellish it and went looking on Pinterest and Ravelry, but amongst the hundreds I saw, nothing hit the spot.  I realized I wanted texture so thought of popcorns, so out came the hooks and cottons this morning and I experimented.

These were very nice and I think I will turn them into brooches.  However, I wanted something bigger to put on the side of the tea cosy and voila…..

It needs refining a bit as I think my sides are not even, but not too shabby for a prototype.

Last week I feel in love…… with Sophie’s Universe Cal, I had been keeping a weather eye on it and when I saw how it turned from a circle to a square I could not help myself.  A rummage around in my stash and yippee I have almost enough yarn, will have to top up later.  So I can justify this as a stash buster for Linda's February's Link Party

So on Tuesday as the weather had turned bad I had a lovely crochet day and did weeks 1 and 2.

The instructions and tutorials are the best I've seen!

Yesterday and today I have been working on week 3.  

It took me a long time, and that is the reason I was unable to do this week’s Mini Rings of Change, that and this, Lucy deciding that it made a wonderful  place to have a kip!  I couldn't move her could I?!

However that is on my radar for tomorrow!  That is if I can keep my hands off the lovely Sophie’s Universe blanket!  Well, week 6 instructions come out tomorrow and I have a lot of catching up!

Have a wonderful Valentine’s Day and a great creative week.  Thanks for visiting.  Ambrose Sends his purrs along with Lucy and Peggy Sue.